As the founder of the Hong Kong Piano Duo Association and Honorary Artists of the Foshan Grand Theatre, Duo Ping Ting (Lok-Ping and Lok-Ting Chau) is active in both performance and education. They host piano duo workshop in the Hong Kong University School of Professional and Continuing regularly, as well as giving masterclass and performance worldwide. The duo engaged with music organisation to promote classical music in school outreach programme and community centres, including cooperation with the Dranoff Two Piano Foundation in Miami, Wennigsten Cultural Association (Germany), the Chamber Music for Life Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Musicus Society. In addition, they are  invited as adjudicators in many local music competition. Recent achievement included 'the Beethoven 32' recording project hosted by the Radio Television of Hong Kong.

The Duo performs regularly with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Other engagements included the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Zurich Orchestra, Bialystok Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Besides, they worked with world renowned conductors Jun Märkl and François-Xavier Roth,  as well as musicians such as Jean-Yves Fourmeau, Dong-Suk Kong, Sebastian Krunnies, Dorian Xhoxhi and Trey Lee.

The Artists have gained a wide recognition of their finest musicality and their fascinating matches of sound. They won significant reviews from the German news: “Duo Ping Ting reacted precisely and harmonically together with a matching of sound in an unbelievable manner” (South German Post) “There is no trace of showing off, instead a deep immersion in the content of the work, a charming change between rhythmic sharpening and soft sliding.” (South West Post of Germany).

Duo Ping Ting is top prize winner of several prestigious international competitions. Their awards included:

  • 3rd Prize at the 64th ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Germany (2015)
  • 2nd Prize and Audience Prize at the Grieg A Deux Two Piano Competition in Oslo, Norway (2014)
  • “André Hoffmann” Prize at the renowned “Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad” International Music Festival in Switzerland (2014)
  • 2nd Prize at the San Marino International Piano Duo Competition (2010)
  • 1st Prize and two best interpretation prizes at the International Piano Duo Competition in Bialystok, Poland (2008)

 They performed extensively in numerous music festivals:  

  •  2026      Duo Carnival  Piano Duo Concert , Hong Kong City Hall
  •  2026     Philharmonic Club Piano Four Hands Recital, HK


  •  2025        Performance with the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Beijing

  •  2025       “Twinning Quartet” Piano Duo Recital, Hong Kong City Hall

  • 2025         Fringe Club Piano Four Hands Recital, Hong Kong

  •  2024        Piano Duo Recital at the National Tsing Hua University, Taipei

  • 2024        Chendu Sport University Piano Duo Recital & Masterclass , China

  • 2024          Piano Duo Performance in Hong Kong French May

  •  2024         Piano Duo Performance Shanghai MISA Music Festival   

  •  2024         Chamber Music concert with Cong Quartet, Hong Kong
  •  2023          “Rachmaninoff Piano Festival” , Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts

  •  2023          Two Pianos Performance in Hong Kong French May

  • 2023          “Summer Carnival” Two Pianos Recital , Hong Kong 

  • 2023            “The Duo Celebation” Two Pianos Eight Hands Recital, Hong Kong

  • 2022            “Duo Fiesta”  Two Pianos Eight Hands Recital, Hong Kong
  • 2020             Joy of Music Festival, Hong Kong
  • 2020            Autumn concert with the Hong Kong Children's Symphony Orchestra 
  • 2019             Masterclass and two pianos recital at the Hainan University International Music Week in China
  • 2019            The Jockey Club Musicus Heritage Alive-Chamber Music Series
  • 2019            Concert tour with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in China, and premiere of 'Quotation of Dream ' from Takamitsu
  • 2018            The 1st Foshan Piano Art festival
  • 2018            The 46th Hong Kong Arts Festival
  • 2017            Chamber Music Festival - Liesborn, Germany
  • 2017            Collaboration with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra
  • 2016-2017   New Year for concert tour in Europe invited by The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office 
  • 2016-2019 “Musical del Cuore”
  • 2015 Recital at the Kulturkreises Kloster Wennigsen, Germany
  • 2014  invited by the Dranoff Two Piano Foundation to collaborate the school project “Piano Salm” in more than 20 high schools in Miami. 
  • 2014   the “Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad” in Switzerland
  • 2014  Four Hands recitals - Stadthagen and Braunschweig, Germany 
  • 2014  the First Piano Duo Festival - Gedánsk, Poland
  • 2013  Four Hands recitals at the SØR-Master Concerts - Oelde and Münster, Germany
  • 2012  Joy of Music Festival, Hong Kong
  • 2012  the 40th Hong Kong Arts Festival
  • 2010  the Fifth Gulangyu Piano Festival - Xiamen, China. 2009  Festival ‘Vacations with Music’ - Nowy Sącz, Poland

Ping and Ting obtained Master of Music with First Class Honour at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and the University of Music,Therter and Media Hannover in Germany, with full support from the German DAAD Scholarship and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarships. Their teachers and mentors included Eleanor Wong, Alexander Tamir, duo Aglika Genova and Liuben Dimitrov, duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen. 

For detailed achievements in teaching please see  'Honorary & Teaching awards'.